MANILA - The International College of Dentists (ICD) Philippines Section will celebrate its 45th anniversary through an annual convocation and banquet on Jan. 29 at the Edsa Shangri-La Hotel in Mandaluyong City.
With the theme “Continuing the Tradition of Service,” the annual convocation will have former Chief Justice Reynato Puno as guest of honor and inducting officer.
The event will be highlighted by the induction of new officers led by Fellow Marilyn Leung, induction of eight new Fellows (Drs. Niceto Astudillo, Angela Centeno, Caroline Franco, Alvin Laxamana, Maria Laarni ...

MANILA, Philippines - The Supreme Court on Tuesday ordered its Project Management Office(PMO) to look into issue of the World Bank's memorandum on the "unsatisfactory" progress of the high court's loan.
Court Administrator and spokesman Jose Midas Marquez said the WB project has been going on since 2003.
The period covers during the terms of Chief Justices Artemio Panganiban, Reynato Puno, and Renato Corona.
Marquez said Corona is "actually inheriting" the WB project.
"Some of the projects were not finished during the term of CJ Puno, Panganiban, and now being finished by CJ ...

Mother of all flaws plagues BBLThe proposed Bangsamoro Basic Law (BBL), which is House Bill No. 4994 and Senate Bill No. 2408, is riddled with constitutional infirmities. No less than Rep. Rufus Rodriguez, chair of the House ad hoc committee on the BBL, has pledged to purge it of constitutional flaws. Retired Supreme Court Justices Vicente Mendoza and Florentino Feliciano, […]